Image to text, extracted instantly.
Extract text from a JPG, PNG or phone photo, a screenshot or a scanned document. Our free OCR engine reads printed and handwritten text and detects the language automatically.
Supported formats: JPG, JPEG, PNG, WEBP, TIFF, BMP
Why this tool?
Powerful OCR technology, wrapped in a tool that gets out of your way.
Instant OCR
Advanced optical character recognition extracts text from images in seconds.
Multi-Language OCR
OCR engine recognizes English, Arabic, Chinese, French, German, and dozens more languages.
Copy & Download
Copy extracted text to clipboard or download as a .txt file with one click.
Private & Secure
Your images are processed securely and never stored on our servers.
Works Everywhere
Use on any device: phone, tablet, or desktop. No app install needed.
Free every day
10 pages a day, with or without an account. No watermark, no card.
Three steps. Zero friction.
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Upload Your Image
Drag and drop or browse to select a JPG, PNG, or any supported image format.
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OCR Processing
Our AI-powered OCR engine analyzes the image and recognizes all text, symbols, and numbers.
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Get Your Text
Copy the extracted text to your clipboard or download it as a text file.
Built for everyone
Students & Researchers
Extract text from textbook photos, lecture slides, and research papers for easy note-taking.
Business Professionals
Digitize receipts, invoices, business cards, and scanned documents instantly.
Content Creators
Pull text from screenshots, social media posts, and infographics for repurposing.
Developers
Extract code snippets from screenshots, error messages, and documentation images.
Convert a specific file
JPG to Word
Turn a photo or JPG of a page into an editable Word document, with its headings, lists and tables kept.
JPG to Excel
Pull a table out of an image into a spreadsheet, one worksheet per table.
PDF to Text
Read a scanned or image-only PDF page by page.
Screenshot to Text
Copy the text out of a screenshot without retyping it.
Handwriting to Text
Type up handwritten notes; best with neat printing.
Image to Text Converter
Our image to text converter uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to read the words in a picture and give them back as text you can copy, edit and search. Whether you need to digitize a printed document, copy text from a screenshot or turn handwritten notes into text, upload the image and the text comes back in seconds.
Photos, JPGs and screenshots
Most pictures you will want to read are JPG files, also spelled JPEG: photos, scans saved as images and pictures saved from the web. Converting a JPG to text works like any other image: drop it on the converter above, or choose it from your camera roll on a phone. Photo to text works the same way. Take a straight, well-lit picture of the page, receipt or whiteboard and upload it. For a screenshot, paste it with Ctrl+V (Cmd+V on a Mac) instead of saving it first. PNG, WEBP, TIFF and BMP files work too.
Some jobs have a page of their own: scanned PDFs to text, a JPG to an editable Word file and a photo of a table to Excel. On a phone, see how to extract text from an image on your phone; with a pile of pictures, convert several photos at once.
The OCR engine analyzes shapes, patterns, and structures of text within your images. It supports multiple languages and can recognize both printed and handwritten characters with high accuracy. Beyond images, you can also extract text from PDF documents, Word files, and PowerPoint presentations.
Our photo to text converter needs no registration and no software: every visitor gets 10 free pages a day, refilled every 24 hours. Simply upload your image or document and get the extracted text instantly. Your files are processed securely and are never stored on our servers.
Common questions
JPG and JPEG (two spellings of the same format), PNG, WEBP, TIFF and BMP. Photos and screenshots are usually JPG or PNG, so they convert as they are. PDF, Word (DOC, DOCX, ODT, RTF) and PowerPoint (PPT, PPTX, ODP) files go through their own tool pages. Each file can be up to 3 MB, and you can upload 5 at a time.
Yes, within a daily allowance: 10 pages a day, with or without an account, refilled every 24 hours. Formatted output (tables, lists and headings) costs 5 tokens a page instead of 1. You can upload up to 5 images at a time, and paid plans add a bigger allowance.
Yes, our OCR technology can recognize both printed and handwritten text. For best results with handwriting, use a clear, high-contrast image.
No. Your images are processed in real-time and are not stored on our servers. We prioritize your privacy and data security.
Many languages, and you never have to pick one: the engine detects the language from the image automatically. If a result comes back as the wrong language, email support@imagetotext.online with a sample.
Extract text in seconds.
Upload your image and get editable text instantly. No sign-up required.